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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Something to be Scared Of.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Kristeva says the fear of what is truly horrifying?
(a) The abject.
(b) Death.
(c) Life.
(d) Love.

2. In Chapter 1, Kristeva gives what kind of account of the abject?
(a) Absurd.
(b) Logical.
(c) Horrific.
(d) Phenomenological.

3. What does Kristeva say is, historically, man's primary response to the perversion caused by the abject?
(a) Lawlessness and insubordination.
(b) Religion and morality.
(c) Rejection and fear.
(d) Denial and hatred.

4. Who does Kristeva say is not directly involved when a child is weaned from his mother's breast?
(a) A doctor.
(b) The mother.
(c) The father.
(d) A psychiatrist.

5. Freud saw his Oedipus complex as what?
(a) A metaphor.
(b) A literary device.
(c) A necessary stage in natural selection.
(d) A stage in childhood development.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Kristeva's definition of the abject, the abject is created from repressing what?

2. Phobias are irrational fears which have what?

3. What does Kristeva say children begin to develop, upsetting a child's perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction?

4. Kristeva says that when a child's perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction is upset he alternates between fear and what?

5. What does Kristeva say it is necessary for a child to do because he has to repress his primal fears that still exist in him?

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